yankyou

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by yankyou 10y ago
> Other than that it's a clever (and yes, entertaining) way of displaying margins of error. No dispute that it's clever and entertaining. These are undesirable qualities in a reliable source of information. Can you imagine read
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by yankyou 10y ago
That would make sense, if they didn't have _actual_ error bands as well.
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by yankyou 10y ago
I'd venture further to say it's a perversion of "news" for a news site to be injecting garbage into the data for entertainment purposes.
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by yankyou 10y ago
Don't want to pay for engineering work? You can get it for free! All you need is to rack up a decade of experience, then put in 60 hours a week plus 20 hours of professional development to keep current on the latest technologies. If yo
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by yankyou 10y ago
The tenth time this caused me to lose data and when my home server shut itself down and failed to boot, I set my internet connection to "metered", which Windows graciously seems to have respected. Now I don't get any Windows
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by yankyou 10y ago
Have you considered outsourcing? Hire a few more more smart people to activate their unlimited vacations. Split the winnings. Imagine the cash if you did it recursively!
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by yankyou 10y ago
First, he hasn't been charged. Second, he faces the threat of extradition and execution if he answers the call to be questioned on Swedish soil. Third, the UK has spent millions each year to make sure he doesn't get away.
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by yankyou 10y ago
It _did_ trip a lot of BS detectors. The sound was drowned out by the overwhelmingly non-technical consumers of the game's PR. It's the modern day version of selling snake oil. Technology progresses, but human nature doesn't.
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by yankyou 10y ago
You're two thirds of the way to completing the reductio ad absurdum.
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by yankyou 10y ago
So was I. VR can be social in the same way Facebook can be social. You might be able to argue that Facebook-style interaction replacing face-to-face meeting is a bad thing, but you can't argue it's something nobody wants.
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by yankyou 10y ago
Countless technologies, including the internet and social media, have become augments and indeed sometimes substitutes for human contact. Some of the biggest companies in the world have been built on those technologies. Why does VR need to
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by yankyou 10y ago
OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G31) Chrome Version 53.0.2785.143 (64-bit)
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by yankyou 10y ago
> Drop an English image on this page to OCR it! This looks great, and I'd really love to but > Uncaught ReferenceError: progress is not defined EDIT: works now!
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by yankyou 10y ago
> Actually, the point of the app store was distribution. That's what the 30% cut was for IIRC. Nobody was paying Apple 30% because that was cheaper than distributing yourself. They paid 30% because without paying that their app woul
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by yankyou 10y ago
> Lego's customer service department should run the world. This isn't customer service; this is guerilla marketing in the Twitter age.